• Ama­zon EC2 C6a ins­tances use 3^rd Gen AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sors for 15% bet­ter com­pu­te pri­ce per­for­mance over C5a ins­tances¹

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 16, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) announ­ced the expan­si­on of Ama­zon Web Ser­vices Inc. (AWS) AMD EPYC™ pro­ces­sor-based offe­rings with the gene­ral avai­la­bi­li­ty of com­pu­te opti­mi­zed Ama­zon EC2 C6a ins­tances. Accor­ding to AWS, the C6a ins­tances offer up to 15% bet­ter com­pu­te pri­ce per­for­mance over pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on C5a ins­tances for a varie­ty of com­pu­te focu­sed workloads.

The C6a ins­tances sup­port com­pu­te-inten­si­ve workloads such as batch pro­ces­sing, dis­tri­bu­ted ana­ly­tics, ad ser­ving, high­ly sca­lable mul­ti­play­er gam­ing, and video enco­ding. This is the second AWS EC2 ins­tance type powered by 3^rd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, fol­lo­wing the release of the M6a ins­tances. The­se ins­tances con­ti­nue the col­la­bo­ra­ti­on bet­ween AWS and AMD pro­vi­ding AWS EC2 cus­to­mers access to the per­for­mance and pri­ce per­for­mance capa­bi­li­ties of the latest gene­ra­ti­on of AMD EPYC processors.

“AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors con­ti­nue to offer a cru­cial solu­ti­on for AWS cus­to­mers that need access to powerful com­pu­te per­for­mance and cloud sca­la­bi­li­ty for their workloads,” said Dan McNa­ma­ra, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Ser­ver Busi­ness, AMD. “Our expan­ding port­fo­lio of next-gene­ra­ti­on, cloud solu­ti­ons powered by 3^rd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors for AWS unders­cores the gro­wing adop­ti­on of AMD tech­no­lo­gy in the cloud and we’re exci­ted to con­ti­nue our work together.”

“Ama­zon EC2 C6a ins­tances, powered by 3^rd Gen AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors, con­ti­nue our col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with AMD, pro­vi­ding cus­to­mers the abili­ty to run com­pu­te inten­si­ve workloads,” said David Brown, Vice Pre­si­dent, Ama­zon EC2, AWS. “C6a ins­tances deli­ver on AWS’s histo­ry of offe­ring the latest AMD EPYC pro­ces­sors while enab­ling the best pri­ce and per­for­mance for AWS customers.”

The C6a ins­tances take advan­ta­ges of AMD EPYC pro­ces­sor fea­tures including:

• High core den­si­ty – this enables up to two lar­ge ins­tances sizes, 128 vCPUs and 192 vCPUs, the lar­gest with 284 GB of memo­ry, twice the size of the lar­gest C5a instances
• Always on hard­ware secu­ri­ty –encrypts main memo­ry to help pro­tect the data sit­ting in the phy­si­cal memory,
• Com­pu­te Focu­sed Per­for­mance – uti­li­zing the ‘Zen 3’ core, the C6a ins­tances enable up to 15 per­cent bet­ter pri­ce per­for­mance com­pared to the pre­vious gene­ra­ti­on C5a instances
• Net­wor­king / Band­width – C6a ins­tances deli­ver up to 50 Gbps of net­wor­king speed and 40Gbps of band­width to the Ama­zon Ela­s­tic Block Store, more than twice that of C5a instances.

C6a ins­tances are gene­ral­ly available today in AWS US East (Nor­t­hern Vir­gi­nia), US West (Ore­gon), and Euro­pe (Ire­land) Regi­ons, offer a varie­ty of sizes inclu­ding 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 48, 64, 96, 128, and 192 vCPUs, and uti­li­ze Ela­s­tic Fabric Adap­ter on the 48xlarge size for low laten­cy and high­ly sca­lable inter-node com­mu­ni­ca­ti­on. AWS cus­to­mers can visit the C6a ins­tances page to get started.

Sup­port­ing Resources

• Read the Ama­zon blog on C6a instances
• Learn more about AMD EPYC Processors
• Visit the Ama­zon EC2 C6a ins­tances pro­duct detail page 
  • Fol­low AMD on Twit­ter
  • Con­nect with AMD on Lin­ke­dIn

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¹ All per­for­mance and cost savings claims are pro­vi­ded by Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Inc. and have not been inde­pendent­ly veri­fied by AMD. Per­for­mance and cost bene­fits are impac­ted by a varie­ty of varia­bles. Results her­ein are spe­ci­fic to Ama­zon Web Ser­vices, Inc. and may not be typi­cal. GD-181